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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-12-03

Randolph, Mrs Harriet
Robinson, John
Robey, john
Kicks, Miss Bette
Robinson. William
Rust, A L B
Sherwood, J
Smith, A o
Smith, Porter
Sullivan, Miss Siss
Sntlar, Miss Amelia
Tuman, Edmund L
Thompson, Miss Mary
Townsend, Chas W
Webb, Miss Martha
Wilson, Mrs Annie
Williamson, J P
7. w. HERBERT, P. II.
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MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

New ToRs. Dec. 3.-The stock market was
strong st the opening this morning, first prizes
showing advances over last evenings final figures
of from Is to y per cent. The improvement con
tinued in the early trading. but tho advance was
checked by 1929 and small fractions were lost,
The market, which had been quiet in the open
ing, became extremely dull, and a. IL O'Clock it
was very dull and steady to firm at Insignificant
changes from the opening figures Money BAD
New YORK, Dec 3-The weekly bank stat.
mont shows the following changes:
Reserve, decrease, SSlS,6G5
Loans. increase. 113S7OO
Spocie decrease 1S593!O
Legal tenders, decrease 300 200
Deposits, increase. 2.C9S,3OO
Circulation, decrease. $500
The banks now hold i'll excess OF the
25 per cent. rule. ooio.12,
RALrInoRE Dec. 3-Vireina IS c,nsolnati
40: past.due coupons 62l4; new 3s CO; l0-i",
36la bid to-day.
ALEXANDRIA MARKET. December 3.-Flour
is firm; we note all advance Of 25c per barrel OF
well.known brands of family, and from 12l2 to
15c on other grades. The grain markets during
the week have been strong and active Wheat
closes about &c higher aud steady; sales as to
diton of the offerings to-day were from S3 to 81
most of the samples were gool to prime. Corn is
strong; white 53a55 yellow 53a54 Rye scarce
aud brings from sc to 60. Oats 81 to 40 Eggs,
Butter, Dried Fruit and other produce hold very
firm and receipts continue small =
BALTIMORE, Dec Cotton quiet and steady
| middling 10h Flour active and firm. Wheat
Southern frmer; red S7a90; amber 8sa90:
Western easier, closing dull; No winter red
Feb 80 lass97s May 94isa94H Corn-southern
firm; white 55a56; yellow 54a56; Western cas-.
| ier closing quiet mixed spot 81 y bid new Sta
So; Jan 5Sssa5oa. Feb 59a60; May Gla62
steamer ssh. Oats higher and arm; Southern
and Penna 31a36 Western white 36a37; DO
| mixed 34a35. Rye firm at 62a63. Provisions
higher and firm. Mess Pork SIS %. Bulk
meats-shoulders and clear rib sides packed LA
8. Bacon-shoulders 7a.aS1e clear rib sides 80;
hams 12al2$4. Lard-reined Sla, Potatoes
'MGIhiskey steady 81 14a1 10. Other articles un.
changed.
NEW YORK, Dec 3-Cotton easy uplsnds
09-16; Orleans 10 1l-16; futures opened
steady. Flour quiet and firm. Wheat higher.
Corn better Pork firm at SIS 25a15 75 old
mess Pork firm at S14 90 Lsrd steady at ST 50.
CHICAGO, Dec. 3, IL q. NAT this hour the
leading futures range as follows: May Wheat 55i4
a557s; May Corn 547sa55; Jan Pork Sl4 IS;
Jan Lard 81 40.
MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF ALEXANDRIA. DECEMBEk 3
Sun rises q 50 Sun sets. ..............4 Al
FAILED.
schr Isaac Solomon, Town Creek Nd llmter
by J II d Smoot.
HELLOI HELLOI
We wish TO call your attention TO the ALEX
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Blackburn, Mrs Belle
Brown, Hy 4
Brown, ] A
Brown, Mrs Mary
Butcher, Mrs Lottie J
Gibson, Anna Eliza
Hale, Miss Emma
Joaes, Miss Lula D
Kidwell, Orlando
Linton, John
Lines. David
Louis hIiss Henriett.
Morgan an. Mrs II
Miller, Mrs Susan
McMullen, Alex
Nelson, Miss Agnes
Pinkney, John F
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-12-03

CHICAGO, Dec 3, IL q. NAT this hour the
leading futures range as follows May Wheat 55l2
a557s May Corn 547sa55; Jan Pork STA TO
Jan Lard 81 40
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NEW YORK., Dec. 3.-Cotton easy; uplands
10 GIG; Orleans 10 11-16; futures opened
steady. Flour quiet and firm. Wheat higher.
Corn better Pork firm at SIS 25a15 rs; old
mess Pork firm at $14 so. Lard steady at 81 So
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LIST DE LETTERS.

The following is list of the letters remaining in
the Alexandria, Va, postofice December 3.
Persons calling for letters will please say they are
advertised.
Advertised letters not called for within thirty
days, will be sent 10 the dead letter Office.
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MALAGA GRAPES and CAPE COD GRAN
INA BERRIES inst received.
oct2O GEO. McBURNEY & SON.
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MALAGA GRAPES. large clusters, Just TO-
wi ceivel at ...
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NEWS.

MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF ALEXANDRIA. DECEMBER 3
Sun rises 50 Sun sets.............4 al
FAILED
schr Isaac Solomon, Town Creek, Md, lemter
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BALTIMORE, Dec. 3.-Vireinia IS c,nsOnst,
40: past.due coupons 62l4 new Ss CO; l0-i",
36la bid to-day.
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nRINK MoXEY's NERgE FOOD
~ for sslc by
ap22 JDH LUNT.
, 1887-10-07

First Newspaper Proprietor-Yes, bust.
ness has been pretty dull this summer.
Advertising has been awfully poor.
Second ditto-My lean sir, you should
go into the society gossip business. We
save hundreds of dollars every week in
composition, and our receipts are three
fold what they ever were before.
81 don't understand"
Easiest thing in the world. We get
one of our men to go through the direc-
tory and pick out a lot of names. Each
name is worked into n paragraph. Every
man and every who sees his or
her name in the paper sends down an
order for fifty or a hundred papers to dis
tribute among friends. Weuse the same
matter every day for a week or SO. Peo-
pie don't read the stuff, you know: they
only look for their names, and down
comes another order every day that c
name appears. | tell you, sir, it is n big
thing. Advertising is nothing to it,
Boston Transcript.
, 1887-10-07
GOLD LEAF SIGNS.

How the Secret of Making Gold Leaf
Stick to the Glass Was Discovered.
1.-The reason that so many gold leaf
signs ON glass rub off, " said a painter as
he paused in putting some gold leaf on n
sign, sis that people don't pay enough
for the work. If you look at the gold
leaf above the door of the Merchants
National bank you will find it as good as
when it was put on in 1873. The best
signs are those in the railroad windows in
Broadway. They were done by George
II. Mccarthy, the most expert man in
the business. Those signs lone right
along, without waiting for each portion
to thoroughly dry and harden, are al
ways poorly done"
"How is the work done on glass2'
1.-The glass is first moistened with a
size made of isinglass dissolved in hot
water. The gold leaf sticks to that. Let
tiers are then perfectly formed on the
back of the gold in varnish. When the
varnish is dry we wipe off the gold with
a piece of wet cotton. Then it is shaded,
and then vanished again to preserve it.
Good work, which people get when they
pay for it, allows full time for each of
these processes"
as there any secret about the size of
isinglass?"
There isn't now. 1t used to he a
very close secret. 1t was brought here
in 1850 by an Englishman named Hale.
He used to do up the signs in a style
that American painters couldn't touch.
They tried their best to discover the
secret of the size he used, but couldn't
catch him. Other Englishmen came
over, and they had all the good
gold leaf business to themselves. l
was working as an apprentice of 10
in 1856 for John Mccarthy, who had the
secret. Every time he wanted to mix
the size he would send me out to buy an
egg and to get a piece of charcoal. Then
he would send me up stairs. One day /
got the egg and charcoal and went up
stairs MS usual. l had a hole in the floor
over the stove, and | went one eye on
him. He put the charcoal in the stove
and burned it. Then he cracked and
sucked the egg. Next he took out of his
pocket a little paper and poured out of it
something white into the water. After l
had come down stairs and he had gone
out ! looked around on the floor and
found some white threads of something,
| didn't know what. l concluded to go
to the druggists where he bought it.
There l asked for twenty-five cents
worth of it, and told the clerk l didn't
know the name.
~'1singlass you mean he said.
$50 he put it up, and l mixed some
size. One day / was working away MAX
ing some gold letters ON glass myself, and
in comes Mccarthy. He looked at me
pretty sharp and said:
Where did you get that size?'
"'Oh, l got an egg and run the white
through a piece of charcoal to clarity it,
| replied.
"He didn't say another word. 1 gave
away the secret and practically ran the
Englishmen out, for the Americans can
work faster than New York
Evening Sun.
, 1887-10-07
Life of the Lowry in Barcelona.

With some exceptions the ladies still
wear the poetic Andalusian headgear,
their glossy tresses piled high, the black
lace covering them dropping in front in a
point. The Barcelona shop girl or seam
stress, however, instead of the mantilla,
prefers a crimson or deep yellow silk kerr
chief, that suits to perfection her dark
skin, jetty locks and glorious orbs. Prob
ably their eyes become trained by the
constant contemplation of vivid colors in
mountain and sky, for even in such slight
matters al the selection of a flower to
place in the hair, or the choice of a stock
ing to match the petticoat, the Spanish
lass never errs on the score of harmony.
The peasant, too, is no less romantic
than artistic. In dress, department and
physiognomy, in fact from head to foot,
his appearance is characteristic. His
wooden cap is in reality shaped like the
leg of a stocking-happily he does not
stitfen or distend it to its full length
capacity, the effect would be too gro
tesque for even his Unborn gravity; the
lavish superfuity he draws forward, and,
folding it in a scroll over the forehead, it
not only shades the eyes, but is most be-
coming. 1t is generally red and thus not
altogether unlike the Phrygian cap; old
men, however, often choose a dark
brown, purple, or gray color. His short
jacket is of black or blue velveteen, with
clusters of tiny silver filagree buttons; he
wears knee breeches, knitted hose, and
round his waist a red sash no less han
five yards in length. To put this ON he
let's it trail on the ground, and winds
himself into it by turning round and
round. In the folds of this scarf he car
rios - n1nrY1-,,EA.o 80 --1, al--z
sumably of Moorish origin and peculiar
to Catalonia. The blade is from five to
sever inches in length, and, laying it flat
in the right hand palm, with the point
touching the tip of the two forefingers,
the ''muchacho" knows how to throw it
with deadly accuracy. A pair of sandals,
light and suitable for the climate, COM
plete his equipment and no doubt con-
tribute greatly to the marvellous feats of
speed and endurance for which he is re-
Observation-Disclosures Magazine.
, 1887-10-07

Rosas, for many years dictator of the
Argentine states, was a capricious tyrant,
who turned the republic into a slaughter
shed. He once invited a number of In
dian chiefs TO meet him in council at
Buenos Ayres. After p~arading them with
mock hOnors through the streets of the
city, he had them brought under the
portico of the cathedral, where a number
of gibbets stood ready. In a moment the
chiefs were seized, bound and run up,
and their bodies were left dangling in the
air.
He nj played an ape like trick on the
British minister, Mr.. Vaudeville, whom
the tyrant feared and hated. One of the
~favorite dishes of the people is maza-
mora, which is made from maize crushed
in a mortar. Roses was expecting the
minister TO visit him one evening at his
country house. AS the hour arrived
Manuelita, his beautiful daughter, acting
on her fathers orders, stood on the
veranda, pounding maize.
The Englishman, finding her thus en-
gagged in mental labor and showing signs
of fatigue, C~ourteously offered to relieve
her. After family declining, she allowed
him to pound the maize, when suddenly
Rosas, who had been watching, appeared
on the veranda accompanied by a train
of courtiers. His object had been to
show TO them the envoy of England en-
gagged in servile labor under the roof of
the dictator youths Companion.
, 1887-10-07
balloon. in High Attitudes.

The recent attempt made by some
French aeronauts to reach a great height
above the earth has not been productive
of any particular scientific results. The
balloon in which the ascent was made
reached an altitude of over 90, 900 feet
without the occupants of the car ex-
%periencing any ill effects, except a ten
dency to faintness on the part of one of
them. When about twelve years ago a
similar attempt was made, and the height
of $1,000 feet was reached, it was with
fatal results to three out of the four aero
nauts. The success of the present ex-
pertinent is explained by the allegation
that the difficulties due to the rarefac-
ton of the atmosphere only begin at an
altitude of $4,000 or "a, 900 feet. This
view seems supported by the fact that in
the Himalayas and the Andes heights of
about 10000 feet have been on several
occasions reached without any incon-
v%enience. In such cases, however, the
ascent has always been gradual. The i'll
effects experienced in balloons are pos
sibly due to the suddenness of the change.
London Spectator.
, 1887-10-07
THE RAILWAY BRAIN.p
A Case Much Resembling Railway
Spiner-ouestion for Neurologists.

A Case Much Resembling Railway
SPine"-ouestion for Neurologists.
At a recent meeting of the Society of
Physicians of the : harite hospital in Ber-
lin, Thomson exhibited a patient whose
case he described as one of railway
BRAIN" a neurosis resembling in many
respects the condition already well known
under the name of railway spine" A
healthy railway employee, aged 80, with
out history of alcoholism or of any pre-
disposing neurotic condition, by the sud-
den motion of his train was thrown VIC
lently against the side of a car, striking
his head. He sustained no wound, and
at the time of injury consciousness was
preserved. Some hours afterward, how
ever, he was suddenly seized with syncope,
with mental terror, lost all sense of loca-
ton, could not recognize the simplest
familiar object, md described what he
saw enormously; his one objective symp-
tom was absolute anasthesia of the entire
body. On the fourth day after his injury
he had violent headaches, a pulse rate of
A, and, in addition to the cutaneous anas-
thesia, loss of ~olfactory and taste sensa-
tons, with difficult hearing. On the fifth
day the psychic symptoms suddenly
ceased, he could remember nothing which
had happened, and had no explanation
for his condition.
The patient subsequently became very
melancholy, complaining of insomnia,
headache, spinal pain, WEAKNESS and
failure of appetite; no sensations of terror
or disordered dreams were present. The
objective symptoms remaining were well
marked cranial and spinal hyperesthesia;
failure to distinguish between white and
cplnrG. 1nco nf gp,all a-I to.to ,-l -.
paired hearing; numbness and at times
paresis n spasms of the region sup
piled by the facial nerve were also pres
ent. He was discharged from the hos
pital as improved, but two months after
ward his condition was unchanged; he
was unable to work on account of head
ache and weakness. Thomsen's diagnosis
was railway brain" a condition of pro-
found disturbance of cerebral functions
from shock.
The increase in mechanical appliances
and the immense extension of railways
afford abundant opportunities for obser-
Walton of nervous shock, both in its fatal
and milder forms. While postmortem
demonstration of hemorrhage and struc-
tural LESSONS explains the course of these
cases when fatal, it is evident that we
must rely upon the continued observation
of surviving patients to determine the
development of LESSONS which will illus
trate the pathology of this condition.
The possibility of the production of de-
generative changes in nervous matter
and cerebral conditions causing perma-
nent mental impairment is AN interesting
question for neurologists, and, in its
m~edico-legal aspects, for the corporation
whose property may cause such injuries
to their patrons and employes.-Medical
News.
, 1887-10-07
Death bv tho Guiuotine.

The Progress Medical publishes a paper
by Drs. Regnard and Loye on the exam
ination of the head and body of a convict
Immediately after his decapitation by the
guillotine.
The prisoner was calm to the last and
not pale, even when his neck was
fixed ready to receive the fatal knife.
Two seconds after the decapitation the
checks were still rosy, the eyes wide
open, with moderately dilated pupils, the
mouth firmly closed. When a finger was
placed close to one eye no change of ex-
preston took place, but on touching an
eye or the tips of the lashes during the
first five seconds, the lids closed Just as
in life. This reflex could not be excited
from the sixth second after decapitation.
The jaws We're tightly closed and could
not be opened by manual force. No SINH
lar muscular contraction could be detected
in the trunk or extremities. One minute
after death the face began to urn pale,
he trunk remained fiaccid, the carotids
continuing to throw out blood remaining
in the circulatory area. At the end of
four minutes the face was quite pale, the
upper lids were half closed, the Jaws less
firmly clenched than before. The knife
passed through the lower part of the
fourth c~ervical vertebra.
These researches show that not a trace
of consciousness remains two seconds
after beheading; that reflex movement
of h cornea can be excited for two sec
onds; that the heart may beat for an
hour, the auricles continuing to pulsate
alone for half that period, and that, put
ting aside the reflex movements of the
eyelid, the contraction of the jaws and
the jets of blood from the carotids, it
seemed in this case as though a corpse
had been decapitated, SO inert were the
remains of the convict. Drs. Regnard and
Loye note how calm and free even from
physiological death struggle symptoms is
death by the guillotine. There is not even
asphyxia British Medical journal.
, 1887-10-07

Resistance coils of platinum or German
silver wire have been used for expert
mental cooking. The currents used have
been of constant direction, and the coils
traversed by the currents must needs be
in or in close proximity to the substance
to be cooked. Further, the surface ex-
posed by a coil taking up considerable
room is small, and the amount of heat
radiated and conducted from the wire if
no nearly red hot will not be large.
Cooking by electricity has not come into
use as yet; the use of alternating r
rents offers a solution to the problem. A
large electro magnet of great self induc-
ton is constantly in circuit. The loss of
current through this coil as long as metal
is not brought near it is too small to be
measured. 1t being desired to cook
flapjacks, an iron spider is placed over
the poles of the electro magnet. The
rapid reversals of current in the coil in-
duce currents in the iron spider, which is
thereby heated. For heating liquids, a
copper vessel is preferable where it can
be used on account of its greater conduc-
tivity. The metal in which or ON which
the cooking is done need not touch the
magnet. Indeed, a lessened heating eff
feet is obtained by separating the dish
from h electro magnet Electrical Re-
Viayy
, 1887-10-07
womEN's work IN SYRIA.
Xxi and CARING FOR tho Children and
Lazy Husbaud-SociaI Restrictions.

Cooking and Caring for tho Children and
IA Lazy Husbaud-SoCiaI Restrictions.
There are grand women in Arabia;
women of ability, keen insight and won
derful capabilities. The duties of the
wife of a Syriah today are as follows:
She brings all the water for family use
from a distant well. This is accomplished
by filling immense jars and bringing
them upon her head. She rises early and
goes to the handmill of the village, car
rying corn, enough of which for the days
bread she grinds by a slow, laborious pro-
cess. This h carries home and cooks in
an oven, which is made in the earth. 1t
is a round hole, lined with oval and flat
stones, and heated by a fire built in it.
When the bread is mixed with water and
a little salt she removes the ashes and
plasters little pats of dough against the
hot stones to cook. Could anything be
more crude?
She cares for her children-usually a
large family-and does all the rough
work at intervals, while the devoted (0
husband calmly smokes his ''argelie.' - or
sits cross legged upon his divan or house
top, in conversation with some equally
hard working member of Syrian society.
The houses are made of a coarse stone,
roughly hewn. The housetops are of
clay, covered with coarse gravel. In hot
weather h sun bakes this mud formed
roof and large cracks appear. The rain
comes, and, as n natural onsequenc
the roof leaks.
This is something of which the fas-
tidious inhabitant of the Bible land does
not approve. 1t does not add to his bodily
comfort. He remedies the difficulty
shall tell you howl? Not by any effort of
his own; far from it; his wife comes,
ascends to the housetop, and in the drench-
ing rain propells a roller of solid stone
backward and forward, much as we use
a lawn mower. This rolls the sun dried
cracks together and prevents the entrance
of water.
These are only a few of a Syrian house
wife's duties. Her reward is not in this
world surely. She cannot speak to her
husband in public; she can receive no
caress before his friends She goes yelled
and scantily clad. She has no time to
make her own habiliments, for her hands
must weave and spin and embroider ar
tistically and abundantly for the husband
and the male children. In winter her
feet are protected only by open wooden
sandals, and drops of blood mark her way
10 the Syrian well. This is no extra
ordinary thing, but by those who have
repeatedly seen it, l ave been informed.
OF course this is among the lower and
middle classes of society in Syria, but
those who belong to a higher class are
very, very few.-The Swiss Cross.
, 1887-10-07

let that cold of yours u on. You think
it is a little thing. But it may run into
catarrh. Or into pneumonia. Or con-
sumption.
Catarrh is disgusting. Pneumonia is
dangerous. Consumption is death itself.
The breathing apparatus must be kept
healthy and clear of all Instructions and
offensive matter. Otherwise there is
trouble ahead.
All the diseases OF these parts, head,
nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs,
can be delightfully."- and entirely cured by
the use of Boschee's German Syrup. II
you don't know this already, thousands
and thousands of people can tell you.
They have been cured by it, and know
how it is, themselves Bottle only 75
cents. Ask any druggist.
, 1887-10-07

A natural curiosity has been discovered
at Solothurn, Switzerland, the center of a
large watch manufacturing district 1t
is the nest of a wagtail, built wholly of
long spiral steel shavings, without the
least part of vegetable or animal fiber
used in its construction. The steel shaw
ings are half a millimeter thick and
about twelve centimeters long. The nest
has been preserved in the Museum of
Natural History.-The Argonaut.
, 1887-10-07

There is nothing to compare with the
ttncture Oh n strong infusion of capsicum
annum mixed with an equal bulk. of
mucilage of gum arabic, and with the adj
dition of a few drops of glycerine. This
should be painted all over the bruised sur
face with a camel's hair pencil and al
lowed to dry on, a second or third coat
ing being applied as o as the first is
dry. If done Immediately after the in
jury is inflicted, this treatment will al
most invariably prevent the blackening Of
the bruised tissue. The same remedy has
no equal in rheumatic, sore or stiff neck.
st, Louis Medical Journal.
, 1887-10-07

d. A. Bradford, wholesale paper deal
er, Of CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, writes that lie
was seriously afflicted with a severe cold
that settled on his lungs; had tried many
remedies without benefit. Being induced
to try DIR. Kings New Discovery for con-
sumption, did so and was entirely cured
by use of a few bottles. Since which
time he has used it in his family for all
coughs and colds with best results. This
is the experience of thousands who have
beeN saved by this wonderful discovery.
Trial bottles free at w. N. Hunts drug
stord